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The American workplace is changing. There are more women, minorities, immigrants, nonimmigrant contract workers, non-English-speaking or limited-English-speaking workers, and older workers in the workforce today. Those employees have different needs, expectations, and skills that present many challenges for management. You must not ignore those differences. Ignoring them simply leads to confusion, conflicts, and eventually discrimination […]
The greater Nashville metro area, where our company is headquartered, experienced widespread flooding during the first days of May. The devastation was significant. In fact, Tennessee’s governor asked that 53 counties across the state be declared federal disaster areas. When something like this happens, everyone is affected by it in varying degrees. Some of us […]
Can’t we deal with job descriptions later? No—you need lean, practical job descriptions that accurately reflect essential job duties, say San Francisco attorneys Mark Schickman and Cathleen Yonahara. They serve an important, if not necessary, function in virtually every significant employment decision businesses make.
I’m concerned about conflicting information we’ve received from the IRS and our legal counsel regarding how the USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act) pay differential (pay difference between military pay and the employer’s pay) should be treated from a tax perspective. Do we report these payments on a 1099-MISC or on a W-2?
President Obama announced a proposed rule to “modernize” and expand overtime protections for workers on March 13. The administration signaled that it would like to expand overtime protections through a U.S. Department of Labor rule change that would raise the salary threshold defining which workers are exempt from overtime and potentially evaluate some of the […]
By Beth TintoDirector of Human Resources, Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans An HR director provides an emotional account of what it’s like to survive a major disaster—and what lessons her organization learned for the future. This week marks the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Prior to Katrina, the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans had 9,000 […]
Yesterday’s CED featured tips for finding payroll fraud; today, tips from consultant Vicki Lambert, CPP, on who should do your payroll audit, plus an introduction to BLR’s popular Managing an HR Department of One.
New research shows that recruiters are facing hiring challenges with an array of strategies, rather than relying on just one technique.
Employers now have the option of allowing plan participants to roll over up to $500 in unused FSA funds at the end of each plan year, under a new regulatory interpretation on health flexible spending accounts, the U.S. Treasury Department and IRS announced Oct. 31. Employers are free to change their plan designs accordingly for […]